Hey everyone,
I am new to the forums as a registered user but have been coming to read and learn for quite some time now. But now no matter how much I read and learn I haven't been able to solve my problem on my own. I've been suffering from power issues for a year now but haven't really worried about it because I have a second PC which I built and which works perfectly fine. The problem I am having is with a custom built PC I bought "ready-to-go"... so I had assumed.
So just to introduce my problem:
I had a 550Watt PSU
Intel Quad-Core 2.4GHz
ATI HD 4650
ASUS P7P55D-E LX Motherboard
When I use my computer for everyday things it works perfectly fine, but as soon as I start to play games (NFS:Shift, CIV:V, Fallout 3) it works for a little while and the game freezes to a black screen with looping sounds and returns a minute later or fully crashes.
I have swapped out and in the DDR3 ram from one comp to the other, swapped the ATI for an NVIDA vid card and neither of these things solved my issue. I then had an idea, I powered the video card in question with my PSU from my second computer with an extra PCI-e power cable, and the rest of the computer with the original PSU and amazingly my computer worked flawlessly! I was able to play games for longer than my usual ~5mins, in fact I played for a whopping 5 hours before I decided to call it test confirmed.
So from this I thought that the problem was I needed a bigger power supply, so I went out and bought a 750W OCZ power supply, and I am still having the same problems.
Sorry for the long essay, but from what I know, the more detail I can provide the better, but I know I still must have left some important information out, so please let me know if you require any extra information.
I am new to the forums as a registered user but have been coming to read and learn for quite some time now. But now no matter how much I read and learn I haven't been able to solve my problem on my own. I've been suffering from power issues for a year now but haven't really worried about it because I have a second PC which I built and which works perfectly fine. The problem I am having is with a custom built PC I bought "ready-to-go"... so I had assumed.
So just to introduce my problem:
I had a 550Watt PSU
Intel Quad-Core 2.4GHz
ATI HD 4650
ASUS P7P55D-E LX Motherboard
When I use my computer for everyday things it works perfectly fine, but as soon as I start to play games (NFS:Shift, CIV:V, Fallout 3) it works for a little while and the game freezes to a black screen with looping sounds and returns a minute later or fully crashes.
I have swapped out and in the DDR3 ram from one comp to the other, swapped the ATI for an NVIDA vid card and neither of these things solved my issue. I then had an idea, I powered the video card in question with my PSU from my second computer with an extra PCI-e power cable, and the rest of the computer with the original PSU and amazingly my computer worked flawlessly! I was able to play games for longer than my usual ~5mins, in fact I played for a whopping 5 hours before I decided to call it test confirmed.
So from this I thought that the problem was I needed a bigger power supply, so I went out and bought a 750W OCZ power supply, and I am still having the same problems.
Sorry for the long essay, but from what I know, the more detail I can provide the better, but I know I still must have left some important information out, so please let me know if you require any extra information.
